Researchers have found that giving drugs to make the ovaries produce extra eggs may be unnecessary for many women undergoing IVF treatment. The team, based at King's College Hospital in London, showed that in 60-70 per cent of cases, the overall chances of pregnancy are just as good if...
US and Japanese scientists have developed a new test to diagnose infertility in men who produce apparently normal sperm. The teams, based at Oregon Health Sciences University and the Tohoku University School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan, hope that the new test will help doctors identify a cause in some...
Scientists working at the Roslin Institute, home of Dolly the sheep, may have discovered why so many cloned animals die before or shortly after birth. The current published success rates are only one or two per cent. Lorraine Young and her colleagues found that manipulating embryos can affect the action...
An international team of scientists has identified a gene involved in some cases of early menopause, also known as premature ovarian failure. They found that alterations in the FOXL2 gene are responsible for a rare genetic condition, known as BPES type I, which results in drooping eyelids and incomplete ovary...
The Research Defence Society (RDS) has called upon the UK government to outlaw all forms of animal rights extremism and allow police to arrest the organisers of intimidation campaigns such as that used against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). The RDS says that new measures proposed by Home Secretary Jack Straw...
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A quiet revolution in IVF?
by Juliet Tizzard
For a breakthrough in the treatment of infertility, it came and went by with remarkably little comment. IVF treatment without drugs doesn't sound particularly exciting. It's not a fancy new test or technique or operation. In fact, it's rather old. But if IVF without drugs (or unstimulated IVF) takes off...